Yu Xuan then checked the balance of his system points.
[Balance: 18,439 SP]
It was a staggering amount but Yu Xuan rely glanced at the number and closed the panel.
He wasn’t in a hurry.
Instead, his thoughts drifted elsewhere as he considered his options.
The Two Towers!
The Elental Tower which offered refinent and elental mastery.
The Tower of Trials, on the other hand, was pure self-improvent – combat, will, survival, and adaptation.
The last ti he had entered the Tower of Trials, he had walked out with two eggs.
In the end, he made his choice.
The Tower of Trials.
He definitely did not want to avoid his pending work.
Without hesitation, Yu Xuan vanished from beneath the Five Elental Tree.
Space folded neatly around him, and few monts later, he reappeared in one of the main towns near the Main Elental Heaven Peak, a bustling hub where both the Tower of Trials and the Elental Tower stood like twin monunts to ambition.
Despite the recent chaos surrounding the gates, the area was far from empty.
Disciples of varying cultivation levels moved about – so tense, so excited, so clearly bruised and wounded.
The towers did not stop for crises. If anything, they attracted cultivators because of them.
Yu Xuan’s eyes were drawn naturally to the Tower of Trials.
It rose like a spear piercing the heavens, its golden surface alive with flowing runes that pulsed and shifted like veins of light.
The structure seed less like a building and more like a living entity.
Arriving near the Tower of Trials, he joined the line calmly.
The Discipline Committee disciples were stationed at the entrance, working with practiced efficiency.
He was slightly glad that his Discipline Committee duties were not a desk job.
When it was his turn, Yu Xuan handed over his dallion.
The disciple in charge paused for half a heartbeat longer than usual noticing his face, she then noted the ti, returned the dallion, and gestured toward the entrance without a word.
The doors lood before him.
They were vast, golden and engraved with countless scenes – cultivators clashing, heavenly beasts roaring, shattered landscapes.
Yu Xuan stepped forward.
The mont he crossed the threshold, the runes flared violently, bathing him in a flood of warm, enveloping light.
Then.
The world folded.
The noise of the town vanished.
The air itself seed to invert.
In the next heartbeat, Yu Xuan was gone, swallowed whole by the Tower of Trials for the second ti.
***
Yu Xuan found himself standing in a familiar yet unsettlingly vast hall.
The space was empty, too empty.
Its towering walls were carved with moving murals, scenes of titanic battles that felt alive, Immortals clashing with world-ending beasts, heavens cracking, civilizations burning and being reborn in endless cycles.
This was the entrance hall of the Tower of Trials.
Before he could fully orient himself, an invisible presence swept over him.
The scan ca.
Yu Xuan’s brows furrowed instantly.
He hated this feeling.
The sensation of being peeled apart layer by layer.
A faint pressure crawled across his skin, and then glowing letters condensed in midair.
Na: Yu Xuan (Picture)
Race: Human
Cultivation: Core Formation Realm — 5th Layer
Physique: Unknown
Bloodline: Unknown
Status: Heavenly Restriction — Broken
Remarks: That cultivation technique is quite impressive...
Yu Xuan’s gaze sharpened.
The last ti he had entered the tower, his status had read "Heavenly Restriction Partially Broken."
Now?
Completely broken.
And the remark.
"So now even the tower is evaluating ," he muttered quietly.
"How polite."
Before he could dwell on it, the text shimred violently, then shattered into fragnts of light.
New ssages replaced it, far more chaotic, as if sothing was being forcibly accessed.
Irregular Status Detected.
Cross-referencing historical challenges...
Chance of clearing Land of Mortality detected...!
Verifying permission to interfere with isolated Nexus %#›@%^@!
Permission: DENIED.
...
Permission FORCEFULLY GRANTED.
Overriding existing protocols.
Transferring Challenger to Land of Mortality.
Establishing Safe Anchor for Challenger.
Challenger, please drop your blood onto the disk.
Yu Xuan’s heart sank.
"...This is absolutely a scam."
A disk materialized before him.
It hovered silently, its surface etched with symbols so old they seed to predate language itself. The aura radiating from it made Yu Xuan’s instincts scream.
Life.
Death.
Reincarnation.
Samsara.
All intertwined into a single oppressive whole.
This was not sothing a trial tower should casually pull out.
Still, hesitation would change nothing.
With a sharp breath, Yu Xuan pricked his finger and let a single drop of blood fall onto the disk.
The mont it touched.
Thump.
His soul shuddered.
An invisible connection latched onto him.
Connection Established with the Infinite Life–Death Tablet.
The Book of Life and Death has lost track of the Challenger.
Challenger Yu Xuan may the spirit of Cultivator be with you!!!
"...What?"
Before Yu Xuan could even process the implication of that sentence.
The entire Tower of Trials lit up.
Not just the hall.
The whole tower.
Ti warped.
Space bent inward.
The murals on the walls froze, then began to rewind, fast-forward, overlap eras collapsing into one another.
Yu Xuan felt his surroundings slip.
His first reaction was imdiate.
He activated his dallion.
He tried to reach out to his master.
Nothing.
The connection was severed as if it had never existed.
"What the hell is happening?!" he snapped, panic finally breaking through his composure.
This wasn’t a trial.
This was abduction.
And then, as if mocking him, a familiar system panel appeared before his eyes.
[Skill Fated Encounter is Strongly Activated]
Yu Xuan’s expression darkened completely.
"...I really hate you right now system!" he muttered through clenched teeth.
Before he could say another word, the temporal aura surged violently.
Light, darkness, life, death – everything twisted into a single overwhelming current.
And then.
Yu Xuan was swallowed whole.
Not by space.
Not by ti.
But by fate itself.
And the implications of this were imnse, far broader than anyone could imdiately comprehend.
Beyond the Nine Heavens, within the boundless domain of the Heaven Immortal Sect, a presence stirred.
The Sect Leader, seated high above the clouds in silent ditation, slowly opened his eyes.
For the first ti in a very long while, a ripple of emotion crossed his calm expression.
"...Another Irregular," he murmured softly.
"One more... passing through the Impossibility yet again."
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